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4 <br />and the project designer toward an agreed upon program on which the project budget would be <br />based. At such time agreement was reached and the Board has approved the project budget, <br />the CM at Risk is in a position to guarantee that the project will be delivered at the agreed upon <br />price. Additional information regarding this contracting method and agreement that may be <br />struck with LEDAHF to provide the CM at Risk services will be presented to the Board on <br />September 7, if the approach proves to be viable, <br />The cost proposal is based on a flat fee of $4,000 per month during pre-closing and pre- <br />construction periods and then the greater of $4,000 or 4.75% of the total hard and soft costs <br />drawn for the month against the project, These fees shall not exceed a total of $85,000, <br />Expenses, such as mileage, mailing costs, etc. would be handled as a reimbursable expense <br />similar to other professional services for which the County contracts. The combined <br />design/project management costs will total approximately $224,500, which is approximately <br />11 % of the overall project total and is substantially the same as the amount presented to the <br />Board in the March 15, 2005 presentation, <br />Planning Committee <br />The Board indicated its intention to replicate the successful Southern Orange Senior Center <br />process of appointing and soliciting advice from a citizen planning committee comprised <br />primarily of constituents who will use the new Central Orange Senior Center. The Clerk's staff <br />have solicited applications from citizens interested in service on this planning committee, and <br />have received 23 applications as of August 10, 2005, Staff plan to bring back to the Board's <br />September 7 meeting recommendations regarding the committee charge and membership, <br />Senior Center Operations <br />The County's Department on Aging will be responsible for the operations related to programs of <br />the senior center. <br />Operations Management Contract(s) <br />During the next several weeks, staff plan to initiate discussions with one or more entities that <br />could contract with the County for a pilot period of perhaps two years to operate one or more <br />elements of the overall SportsPlex operation: <br />• overall physical plant, to include building, equipment, and grounds; <br />• skating, hockey, and other ice rink programming; <br />• swimming pools and aquatics programming; <br />• fitness programming; <br />• food concessions; <br />• atterschool and other recreational programming <br />In the interests of time and having well-qualified outside management in place prior to closing <br />on the 5portsPlex facility, staff recommend that the County NOT solicit a broad array of <br />proposals for managing the overall SportsPlex operation or subsets of its activities, Rather, <br />staff propose to negotiate agreements with one or more entities with demonstrated successful <br />track records in managing the types of amenities available at the SportsPlex. As part of the <br />pilot effort, staff would evaluate the degree of success of the management entity or entities, and <br />make recommendations to the Board regarding the advisability of renewing management <br />agreements at the end of the pilot period or soliciting new management proposals. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: As approved by the Board at the June 23 meeting, the net cost to the <br />County for the SportsPlex acquisition is expected to be ± $5,565 million. Funding for the <br />